He has written to the Bailiff, Sir Philip Bailhache, asking for a public inquiry to be established with an independent chairman.
He said that he would petition Her Majesty as she was ‘the original owner of the foreshore’.The former Senator is one of many who cannot believe that the States are to be asked to hand over a £10m publicly owned prime waterfront site to the company in return for Les Pas dropping its legal claim to the foreshore.Another former Senator, Pierre Horsfall, said that he was saddened that ‘a company that has lost nothing is able to hold the whole community to ransom by using an ancient quirk of law’.Deputy Alan Breckon said that the States should ‘fight Les Pas all the way, no matter what it takes’.
He added that the States ‘should not do business with any of the CI Traders group of companies’ and urged members of the public to ‘vote with their feet’ by boycotting company stores such as Le Riches, Stampers, JerseyGas and Ann Street pubs.
